£200M To Stand Still

Robbie Fowler has been waxing lyrical about love, life and Spurs in particular and I want to know what you ‘orrible lot make of this:

“City have spent the best part of £200m already, Chelsea will strengthen massively and United have spent £150m so far, with no sign of stopping.

Arsenal have made a couple of decent-looking buys, too, Liverpool no doubt will and Everton are pushing with their ­impressive summer so far.

So, if Spurs stay still in the transfer market, it could see them go backwards rapidly. That’s the wonderful world of the Premier League these days – you may need to spend £200m to stay still.”

You know my view. Wembley is like a good horse being handicapped so heavily that you cannot afford to leave anything to chance. The very boys and girls in the yard looking after her, and come the race the services of the most talented jockey you can secure.

I don’t mind Spurs buying quality young talent for the future, but it should be funded with a development budget, and not use finances earmarked for first team recruitment.
I have no idea if this is the case or not with us, just a sensible approach imo.

We cannot be serious, scoffing at every new recruit as though it was a big insult. Looking back Dier, Kane, Dele or Rose would have earned cries of horror and indications that we were struggling to keep up, but they’re now worth about £350m. This lad Foyth looks very good and, I for one, would welcome his signing. If Poch thinks Barclay is worth signing, I’m in. We have to support the best manager in the prem because the chelsea’s and man u’s of this world will be trying to snap him up in no time. Negative lot you are.

I’m a bonkers flat earther full of positivity. That said I rushed to judgement on Kane and rose and thought they’d never be anywhere near the level they are.
Poch is quite a strange bloke and puts a lot of trust in the power of positive thinking and wants to install it across the club – it’s almost like he’s trying to create a cult. I feel that Poch has such a strong sense of his system and the team being much more important than any player. Quite simply Poch doesn’t want any big time charlies, he wants players to go onto the pitch and carry out the orders he has given them. Younger players given chances will trust him, older players who have seen managers come and go may feel that a manager is fallible.

While it would be nice to have had some signings come in, reality is, other than perhaps a winger, we are not looking for a starter and very unlikely to be bringing in a guaranteed starter within our salary structure. Much harder to buy experienced, competent competition for positions. Is Siggy really going to come and get paid within our structure to sit and hope to play every once and a while. Give him enough money and he will. Not sure I can see Levy doing that. Barkley may but his time as a starter in such a squad is still to come. So we are looking for younger players who cannot get regular first team play elsewhere. Not going to happen until later in the window. Sissoko, who knew he would not be first choice, came only when it was the best option he had amongst those willing to pay.

It is also worth noting that our net spend last year of $34.3M was easily eclipsed by Arsenal (84.7), Chelsea (87.4), United (143.1) and City (155.4). Only one of those finished ahead of us in the table. Yes, we need to start winning things. Fact is, Poch, Levy and the lads are all still learning how to do that. Will they get there? Who knows. Many of the pieces, I would argue are there. So long as the ownership remains the same, we need to make things work within our structure. Not easy, but it can be done. We have slowly improved now for over a decade. That will continue.

There are perhaps a few flaws there, Peter. Poch doesn’t use wingers, we do need starters otherwise our bench stays mediocre; even if you ignore the recent spend of all the clubs you list – what guarantees are there that history will repeat itself if we stand still?

Poch and this squad are NOT learning how to win things. The league was the only competition we didn’t ‘throw’. Finally, given that that nobody on planet earth has a footballing metric for measuring degrees of failure, do you acknowledge that the improvement is fundamentally financial, and this has been questionable given the colossal debt we are taking on, which now includes the misdirection of some £30.5million from the council’s social housing budget?

So Levy has now proven that being a disruptive c**t gets you a mega money move away from his smoke and mirrors carousel. In no way will this set a precedent, just look at the players we are bringing in……………………….

Sexy Beasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dW6R-jmu1w
Watching this Onamah under 20 World Cup highlights reel actually staggered me, let me say we have a player here, he was like a 23 year old ringer, in a completely different class.
Watch it, you will be amazed, i certainly was!

I was surprised at his use at DM as well as at AM. Great versatility. He is better than what he has shown at first level play. Still a bit tentative when called up. One can see his gears turning and hesitation with the first team. I think he can come through pretty well with a bit more time.

I agree hadnt watched this.He looks more like Zidane or Fabregas than Onomah.Impressive thanks Sexy and MiT

All this tosh about football & no one mentions the elephant in the room! A feckin female doctor who! No one wants a female doctor who but is quite thankful when you have a problem with the sonic screwdriver

Victor Wanyama has apparently unfollowed Bonzo on Twitter following his move.

Considering how much Wanyama is obviously a Poch man this might suggest that Walker could well have acted like a prick in order to get his move.

Either that or Wanyama wasn’t great mates with him anyway, whatever the case I expect the rest of the squad to follow suit. He’s gone, why follow him on Twitter unless he’s an amusing Tweeter or something. Which I very much doubt…

Sexy Beasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dW6R-jmu1w
Watching this Onamah under 20 World Cup highlights reel actually staggered me, let me say we have a player here, he was like a 23 year old ringer, in a completely different class.
Watch it, you will be amazed, i certainly was!

I was surprised at his use at DM as well as at AM. Great versatility. He is better than what he has shown at first level play. Still a bit tentative when called up. One can see his gears turning and hesitation with the first team. I think he can come through pretty well with a bit more time.

I switched to vegetarian overnight. No bread, no meat, no deserts, no sugar, no chocolate, no soft drinks, limit of two glasses of red wine a day. Nothing but vegetables, minimal fruit, and my only treat is aged Gouda cheese for the high vitamin K2 content. Maybe i should try that there dog chow. It’s torture and we still haven’t signed anyone yet. I did loose 25lbs in six weeks however whereas we’ve lost three squad members so far. Is this in any way connected? No, I’m just saying like.

Watching this Onamah under 20 World Cup highlights reel actually staggered me, let me say we have a player here, he was like a 23 year old ringer, in a completely different class.
Watch it, you will be amazed, i certainly was!

He looked way above that level. Should be in the u 21’s now. He’s 20, most of them opposition players looked like kids of 18. Can’t judge him on that, seen nothing for spurs to suggest anything, not like winks. Kane looked like nothing early on so you never know. A lot of loose touches and passes though got away with cos of level of opposition.

He’s gonna get found out quickly in the league, give away possession a lot if he doesn’t start getting rid of the ball quicker when under pressure. He may hold off some green 18yo kids that don’t tackle well, that’s not going to work against real competition.

Thank you HH. I reached a creative block to my thrash metal/love/power ballad composition. This is a wonderful start. It might catch on. Btw are you now a vegan now ? Not sure I have this right but if so, congrats I mean it…that’s some commitment/sacrifice – and you’re looking very trim 😊

My doctor has advised me to stop eating my own words after making so many predictions about Tottenham’s upcoming seasons. Apparently my words are full of pre-season transfacts which have caused my arteries to harden. After a recent visit with my cardiologist I stated that we were not a “selling” team and we would probably be buying up to three new players in order to improve on last season. He told me that I cannot afford to eat those words because they will worsen my condition by directly affecting my blood pressure. I responded to him using “Ronglish” whereupon he thought that I was having a stroke. Daniel Levy is not good for my health. I can’t even get health insurance for the Levy effect because it’s deemed as a pre-existing condition.

A lifelong condition only made bearable of late by the medication known as ‘Poch’. Levy stumbled across it much like Alexander Fleming did with penicillin.

Levy was at Southampton docks checking out the suitability of shipping containers for use as possible executive boxes at the new ground. He bumped into an Argentinian bloke who said he’d work for minimum wage and expect his players to do the same, the rest is history…

Ross is garbage. Sign siggy. God almighty sign siggy. Every swan fan doesnt want him to leave, every everton fan i know wants us to sign barky. His is shitsko part 2. Maybe poch magic can change him, but doubt it

Fair enough sexy. Believe me, hope i eat every one of my words. But honestly, i see siggy improving our squad from day one. Ross its a gamble, maybe it pays off maybe not. But at the prices, give me one solid signing. Punt the rest of the money, im fine with that. Just give me one!

I cant help that feel we are the only top 4 club that wont sign instant starters due to upsetting or disgruntling those already there. Yes we have one of the best squads but we need to make proven signings once in a while and splash a bit.

A first team regular would be a great signing wouldn’t it ? Putting Necks out of joint & agitating a together squad.we need depth so picking the best of the rest is exactly what we need,no prima donna’s needed

We have been adding dept, sissoko, n jie , n cuckoo, holtby, and other gick balls! We need to buy the best we can and if that means alli, eriksen or son is not starting because the new guy is on fire so be it! We have won NOTHING so nobody deserves the right to be handed a jersey!!

Sissoko wasn’t supposed to be depth,nor soldado or any of the plus £15m players we’ve bought.we now have a system in place a manger who knows what he’s doing,not some just go out & run around a bit saggy chopped arse wipe.Give him ingredients & he’ll cook up a storm.

I can’t help but wonder if the Walker-to-City deal was pushed through early (well, early by our standards) so we would have the funds in place to buy Barkley before we jet off for the US tour on Thursday.

Everton spent loads and not one of the new boys would get in our team, same with Manure although i don’t know anything about Lindorf or whatever his name is.
Arsenal spent 52M on a forward who is 26 and never played for his country, and still managed by Auntie, Liverpool might be a concern due to how they played the top six last season.
Chelscum will be the team to beat whilst Citeh can’t defend and their manager doesn’t know anything about defending.
To summerise, not concerned about the oppo if we can add 2/3 improvements to the bench, if we beat Newcastle and Chelski first two games the title is ours……and i’m a pessimist!!

Correct now let’s live in the real world our players haven’t been bought through pure luck u make odd mistake poch buys good players and makes them better most of the time nobody knows. Who he is after do u want him to be like mourinho shouting his mouth off our manager is a class act now leave him to it coys

Love poch but………. no he hits 1 outta 4 on his transfers. His squad rotation, piss poor (granted he doesnt have much to pick from). & his subs are at times mindboggling. I.e we are down a goal & he subs a dm for a dm. Hes young & improves every year. But he is not jesus christ reincarnated

Don’t think so Mike. 16 players in since he arrived. Tobes, Dier, Dele, Victor, Trippier and Son are pretty much first teamers. Davies, Wimmer and Vorm have proved to be decent squad players, and there were signs that Vinny was getting there towards the end of last season. I think that compares pretty well to other team’s transfer dealings.

Correct me if im wrong, but this is the way i see it. Dier/alli was in the works before him. Toby/wanna he already coached so they were known quantities.son was bought by levy for the asian market same way yed was bought for the us market. Turns out son is really good. Always thought tripps was a smart buy off burnley. Like i said we hit gold with a few of these guys but shouldnt be our transfer policy. I think our luck can quickly turn against us now

Says a lot about ambition of a team when we are linked with players that teams in mid table are linked with. When you sign a player you aim to strengthen the first 11. If by chance you do that then you also strengthen the bench.

As much as i Desperately want to believe that if without strengthening and with a season at wembers we finish below city, Chelsea, utd and scum/Liverpool, IE outside top 4, our star players just want to stick around for sheer love and to see the completion of the cheese room( yes! Got one in!), I am not confident that will be the case unks.

Kane is loving life at the minute,Top cat,Top earner making headlines & memories at the club he want to be at.He sees things are moving in the right direction on & off the pitch,very different to teddy having to go to win things but give it a couple of years of stagnation & maybe then,maybe

Longer answer. The way I expect this to unfold is that we get 3 or 4 younger players of ability and promise for Poch to hone into top class players for our system. We both know we are not going to spend top dollar on proven internationals, or even more remotely world class stars, who would immediately improve the actual starting XI. Therefore, like it or not, our best hope as fans is shrewd investment in well scouted younger talent who will swiftly mature under Poch’s coaching into top class players, like Alli, Dier, Eriksen, Son, Alderweireld, etc, as opposed to blunders/cheap punts like N’Jie, Sissoko, Fazio.

We finished last season in outstanding form and we have only lost Walker, who had already been surpassed by Trippier. We still clearly need to strengthen the squad in certain areas, the only debatable question is which areas? In my opinion, RB, CB (if Wimmer goes), CM, CF. So possibly Pereira, Barclay, King, Suso. I have some hopes for Vincent Janssen having a breakout year this year and importantly a return to past performance levels of our injured stars Lamela, Winks and especially Danny Rose. Even N’Cluedo is reportedly looking sharp and might surprise us!

In summary, I am more concerned about the Wembley effect for this season than the strength of the team. Despite my more cynical misgivings, I cannot believe that Levy will screw this transfer window up and risk alienating Poch, therefore after his customarily tortuous negotiating machinations and last minute changes of agreement, I am expecting that several of Poch’s top targets will, eventually, be brought on board, although as usual too late to be fully integrated into our pre-season training regimen.

Transfer window opened 2 weeks ago because other teams going buck daft doesn’t mean we have to fergie said strength is only tinkering with team and squad and he knows a hell of a lot more than Harry coys

Lacazett at Woolwich and lukaku still aren’t as good as Kane!
Not one of Everton’s signings would start for us!!
Bernard at city is the one top signing.
Remember our team is pure quality! Who can we afford who is out there to take a spot in our first 11??
What quality is out there that might have to sit on our bench?
If Barkley comes the kid has balls and is willing to compete because he knows how difficult it’s going to be.

It may be that Dan Levy has a masterstroke to spring on us.However it is a long time since a transfer window produced a diamond for us.We always seem to get the chaff and never the good stuff.We are so close to greatness but that final step keeps eluding us or Dan does,nt do the bizz.

Wanyama was a yellow card magnet and a thug – people moaned that he was a poor signing
Dele was playing in League One – who was the last player to perform in the PL after a move from there?
Dier – a £4m investment who’s now a £40m target

Brilliant no. Indispensable yes. I know the dier/wanna role didnt work well to start. But, i see wanna being a future dembele with dier filling the wall infront of our pack three. Now that we dont have both rose/walker bombing down the lines, tripps ( a better offensive option) but will be exposed to speed on the flank. We will need that cover in the middle. Love dem but see him being phased out in the next 2 years

I don’t have copyright on the thug thing but there was certainly a feeling that Arsenal had bought a much better player in Xhaka. He did pick up 3 reds in his last season but under Poch he’s been more disciplined.

I disagree, loved wanna signing, the minute alli nutmeg modric, knew we had something. To be honest didnt think hed be this good. & diers versitility is indispennsable. Unfort these lucky signings has made levy think he can punt on a low ball player & they will turn to gold. We got lucky……..dont push the luck

Spurs do need reinforcements, we all know that.
But they have to be square pegs for square holes.
Spending 200m just for the sake of it and then saying ‘look we spent this and we remain where we were already’ doesn’t mean anything.
As good a striker as fowler was doesn’t make him an expert in this area.
The one thing I will give him credit for was winding up le saux to the point of distraction!

He may be right
He may be wrong
But if buying the right players costs less than simply just buying players for the sake of it I know which I prefer.

not many striker out there to replace kane and as for vinny i think another season won’t do us any harm since scoring wasn’t our problem but our bench let us down for back ups, i wont mind barkley mawson and that porto RB for starters.

Reports suggest that Pochettino is an admirer of young Sterling and that he might get a chance or two next season. He’s looked very promising whenever I’ve seen him. I think he’s going on the US tour next week so hopefully he’ll get some playing time there.

the others can spend until the suns dying embers but that didn’t hinder our progress finishing 2nd as long as levy backs mo and brings in our long overdue bloody targets of witch we’re not certain in this mad window.

Thank you HH. I reached a creative block to my thrash metal/love/power ballad composition. This is a wonderful start. It might catch on. Btw are you now a vegan now ? Not sure I have this right but if so, congrats I mean it…that’s some commitment/sacrifice – and you’re looking very trim 😊